This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
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SLOPEIntegrated proceSsing and controL systems fOr
sustainable forest Production in mountain arEas
SLOPE Final Conference10th November, EIMA 2016, Bologna
FP7 Project GA 604129 36 Months Budget 5M€
PRECISION FORESTRY FOR MOUNTAIN TIMBER AND BIOMASS PRODUCTION
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
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Introduction
• Forests in mountainous areas: 23% of the Earth• Mountain forest management & production ≠ industrial management• Difficult mountain conditions
• Steep terrain• Limited accessibility• Long vegetative succession• Hydro-geological constraints
• Manual operations:• Tree marking• Felling
• Increased operation costs
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
3
Goals
Improve, harmonize and optimize the wood processing chain from the forest to the market• Integrated processing: all actors interact together providing and sharing information
to create a forest data model;• Integrated control systems: real-time quality assessment and tracking• Sustainable forest production: transport optimization, response to market demands• Mountain areas: specific focus on high slope area where operations are difficult
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
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The typical scenario
Selection Cutting and debranching
Harvesting and logging Transport Sawmill
processing Selling
Problems• Right areas/trees selection: demand/quality/optimization• Operational areas selection in the forest: harvesting, processing, stocking• Slope: optimize carriage system placement• Transport: path optimization among sawmills, reduce loading and unloading times• Logs quality: maximize final product value• Other actors involved
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
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The SLOPE scenario
Forest Survey (RS, UAV, TLS)
Digital Forest Model Creation
Harvest plan and
simulation
Trees Marking
(RFID)Trees Felling
ExtractionTrees
processing
Piling stocking
transportSelling
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
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Forest Survey through Remote Sensing
Satellite imageries evaluated under different indexes to inspect wide areas: • NDVI: Normalized Digital Vegetation
Index• CCCI: Canopy, Chlorophyl Context Index• NDRE: Normalized Difference Red Edge
Index
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
7
Forest Survey Through UAVs
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
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Forest Survey Through Laser Scanner
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
9
Digital forest model creation
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
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Harvesting Plan and Simulation
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
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Tree marking
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
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Tree felling, extraction, processing
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
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Piling, stocking and transport
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
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Selling
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
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Integration of forest inventory with harvesting data
Forest Model Inventory Database
Wifi (in field)
Automation Controller
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fuel
Oth
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Wifi (home)
Wifi (home)
HD or GPRS
Automation Controller
CP NIR HI SW
cam
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kine
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Wifi
Black box (quality index)
GPRS or WiFi
iTruck
LAN
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
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Consortium
Italy• Fondazione Graphitech: Interactive Geographical
Visualization and Coordination
• CNR-Ivalsa: Novel sensing techniques for harvesting machines
• Compolab: Mechanical Engineering and Prototype Design
• FlyBy: Digital imaging, remote sensing, optical sensor data processing
• Greifenberg: Cable crane carriage and other forest mechanization systems
Ireland• Treemetrics: Terrestrial Laser Scanning, 3D reconstruction
and operational planning• Coastway: UAV and laser scanning technology (point cloud)
Finland• MHG: Bioenergy ERP platform (end-users, operators,
brokers, etc.)
Austria• BOKU: harvesting planning, road and logistic evaluation
Spain• ITENE: woods traceability, improve logistic models,
dissemination
This project has received funding from the
European Union’s Seventh Framework
Programme for research, technological
development and demostration under
grant agreement no 604129
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Thank You
Daniele Magliocchetti
Project [email protected]
Fondazione GraphiTechVia alla Cascata 56/c38123 Trento (ITALY)
Phone: +39 0461.283393Fax: +39 0461.283398
www.graphitech.it